Adams, Nebraska.
Typical home $401,172 (+3.0% in a year). Beatrice, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,215 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,810 +3%
- $389,361$401,172 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $109,915 +38%
- $291,257$401,172 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Adams$2,106
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Adams, NE rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adams, Gage County, Nebraska
Adams is a village of 604 people in Gage County. Half its households earn more than $90,774 a year and half less, against $67,247 across Gage County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Gage County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Adams is a small village in Gage County, in southeastern Nebraska. Most homes are lived in by their owners, household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and professional and business services. Across Gage County, some of the largest workplaces are Exmark Manufacturing Co, Beatrice Community Hospital and Beatrice Public Schools. Commutes are on the long side, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The closest option on the list is the Norris Forest School Arboretum, a botanical garden a short drive away. Homestead National Historical Park, a protected area that is a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby places. The Tecumseh Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 211households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gage County had 8,780 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 21 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Virginia weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gage County
- Exmark Manufacturing CoLawn and garden equipment manufacturing425
- Beatrice Community HospitalCritical access hospital374FTE
- Landmark SnacksProcessed meats manufacturing290
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
- Beatrice Public SchoolsSchool district261FTE
- Neapco ComponetsAssembly line rebuilding of automotive, truck, and bus transmissions223
- Mosaic BeatriceIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities172
- Good Samaritan Society - BeatriceNursing homes128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,306 people in all across the county; Adams has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adams’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Gage County and the Beatrice, NE metro.
Adams home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adams$401,172
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Adams address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adams — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Adams
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68301 | Adams | 1,549 | — | $392,244 |
| 68357 | Filley | 347 | — | $301,855 |